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IMPORTANT REQUIREMENTS

The NSF 2012 SBIR/STTR Phase II Grantees Conference will be held from Sunday, May 6, 2012 to Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel.This website outlines company participation requirements for active Phase II and Phase IIB awardee companies, travel guidelines and registration instructions.Please click “Register” in the upper right hand corner of any page to access the conference registration module.

At the NSF 2012 SBIR/STTR Phase II Grantees Conference, grantees will participate in either the Poster Session or a Phase IIB presentation/panel. All companies will be scheduled for a one-on-one meeting with their NSF Program Director. If you have more than one active Phase II grant from NSF, these requirements apply to each award individually. You will also have a one-on-one meeting scheduled for each award. Please click here to view your company’s participation requirements.

It is strongly suggested that the Phase II Principal Investigator attend this conference. If he/she is unable to attend, please notify your NSF Program Director to discuss who will represent your company. In any case, that individual should be qualified to discuss the ongoing Phase II project during the required one-on-one meeting, and to represent your project and company during the poster session or Phase IIB presentation/panel. Many companies also elect to send a company business representative who is closely involved with the company’s commercialization strategy, business development, and/or strategic partnerships.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The annual NSF 2012 SBIR/STTR Phase II Grantees Conference is an opportunity for small businesses that have received Phase II awards and supplements to share their technical and commercial achievements with the NSF Program Directors, potential investors and strategic partners. Grantees will also have the opportunity to network with other small businesses for possible collaborations to grow their businesses and to learn about the various supplemental funding opportunities available for Phase II awards.

The Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Program is a major element of the Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Division and critical to the Engineering Directorate’s mission at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The vision of IIP is to be the pre-eminent federal resource driving the expansion of our nation’s innovation capacity by stimulating partnerships among industry, academe, investors, government and other stakeholders. IIP’s mission is to enhance our nation’s economic competitiveness by catalyzing the transformation of discovery into societal benefits through the stimulation of partnerships and promoting learning environments for innovators. The SBIR/STTR Program supports the IIP mission by seeking to invest in cutting-edge, high-risk and high-quality projects in science, engineering and education with a clear goal of stimulating innovation through commercialization. For more information about the NSF SBIR/STTR Program, please visit our website at http://www.nsf.gov/eng/iip/sbir/.

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